I imagine you heading somewhere (don't care where). As you slow down towards the toll plaza and are about to pay the toll, they close up. Just before you realize what's going on, a whole crew of shooters comes right up on each side with sub machine guns in hand and unload on your car.

The only reason I saw the first one was because of all the cool 3d wiz bang. After watching that dreadful movie (but still cool looking) there is no way in hell I'm paying to see any sequels and sit through DWWolves 2.

Unless he drops a bomb and somehow figures out how to show it in holodeck.

Marcus Aurelius:When I think of "Avatar" I think of "Ishtar". Because they were both as watchable as each other.

When I think of Avatar, I think of the Nick property, the one which became 'the Last Airbender' movie. Avatar reruns are still fun. Cameron should have changed his movie's name out of respect for this superior idea. Fark him.

I thought it was a solid, in not very original, movie. It wasn't a classic like Godfather, but it never reached the depths of suck that Transformers 2 or Green Lantern plumbed. Plus, I'm a sucker for Wayne Barlowe creature design and I liked the Roger Dean inspired visuals so I was willing to forgive the shortcomings of the plot because it did deliver on the eye candy. Again, it wasn't GREAT, but it doesn't quite deserve to be called terrible.

It was a perfectly mediocre movie. It took no risks with characterization, or plot, or theme. It was visually impressive, but I don't think that alone means a movie merits a sequel (let alone three of them).

Yeah, me too. Although having WB do the creature design meant there were all sorts of questions like "Why didn't the Na'vi have doubled forelimbs or peripheral eyes like every other farking animal on Pandora?"

Rhypskallion:Marcus Aurelius: When I think of "Avatar" I think of "Ishtar". Because they were both as watchable as each other.

When I think of Avatar, I think of the Nick property, the one which became 'the Last Airbender' movie. Avatar reruns are still fun. Cameron should have changed his movie's name out of respect for this superior idea. Fark him.

I agree. Especially since Cameron's movie only barely takes advantage of the whole 'avatar' idea.

theorellior:It's been quite a while since "Avatar" came out and I really only hear one person clamoring for sequels. And that person would be James Cameron.

One would hope he's hire some actual writers to flesh out this world. Of course, he's probably just hired Damon Lindelof for extra suckage.

I thought it was funny when Cameron was talking about 3 sequels and how the technology was in development to get his vision out. I didnt know it took some kinda high tech to write a story. But I never really heard anyone getting excited about sequels either.

Yeah, me too. Although having WB do the creature design meant there were all sorts of questions like "Why didn't the Na'vi have doubled forelimbs or peripheral eyes like every other farking animal on Pandora?"

If they were smart, they would make that a plot point in the sequels, where the Na'vi wind up being a non-native species that colonized the moon thousands or years prior and genetically engineered all of the native species to be controllable via a biotech brain link, and even turned the plant life into a giant neural network. At some point, the colony fails and descends into barbarism and forgets its origins.

Over the course of the sequels, you have the offworld origin of the Na'vi discovered when a ancient facility is found preserved somewhere, and a signal is sent out to re-establish contact. Just when the second wave of mercs from Earth arrive to finish the job from the first movie, the spacefaring Na'vi arrive with some FTL-capable ships and hilarity ensues. Ties up a lot of weird questions from the first movie, while giving you enough plot for the sequel.

quizzical:It was a perfectly mediocre movie. It took no risks with characterization, or plot, or theme. It was visually impressive, but I don't think that alone means a movie merits a sequel (let alone three of them).

Very true. It was cliché after cliché. The instant I heard "Only three people have ever tamed that beast" I would have bet my house that Jake will be the forth.

The sequels are not going to do anything like the business the first one did. They'll do okay, maybe even big money compared to whatever else is out at the time, but they won't do the huge business the first one did. That was down to 3D, and that's commonplace now.

He's 59 years-old. The first Avatar sequel isn't scheduled to come out until 2016. Considering his traditionally glacial production pace and his love of deep sea diving. He'll be challenging GRRM for the Robert Jordan "Most likely to die before creative project is finished" award.